How to Draw Succulents

There are thousands of different plants in the world, and today you are going to learn how to draw succulents. Succulents are not only low maintenance, but they are also easy to draw. In this tutorial, we take you through the steps of drawing the outlines and coloring your succulents.

Before starting the drawing tutorial, get your supplies together. You can use any medium you have on hand, like pencils, markers, Procreate, Photoshop, etc., to draw and color in your succulents.

We are using Procreate, and if you are too, you can use these chalk Procreate brushes to draw the outlines and color in your succulents.

Step 1 - Draw Three Curved Leaves for the Center

Your first step in how to draw succulents is by starting your drawing from the center. Starting in the center helps you to keep with the circular shape of a succulent and evenly draw the same sized leaves.

Begin with drawing three small leaves curving around, then draw another three going around the first that is a bit bigger. This is your most central point in your succulent.

Step 2 - Add Three Leaves at a Time

With your succulent center drawn, you will continue adding three leaves at a time. As you start drawing away from the center, your succulent leaves will start to show the leaf shape.

Start drawing another two rows of three leaves going around the center that are bigger. These leaves will have more gaps and have a point in the middle of the leaf, like ours.

Add one more row of three leaves with more gaps between each leaf.

Step 3 - Fill Out Your Succulent

In this step on how to draw succulents, you are going to fill out your succulent by adding more rows of leaves. There is no specific number of leaves you need to add, so feel free to add as many as you need.

Start adding leaves to your succulent to fill in the spaces to round out your succulent shape more.

In the next row of leaves, we are going to add a lot more leaves going all the way around our succulent.

For the last row, you can add leaves going all the way around with some gaps and double leaves like we did.

Step 4 - Color in Your Succulents

Succulents come in a variety of colors, from greens to purple and blue hues. There are also different ways you can color in your succulents.

You can add color to each leaf of your succulent using different colors or shades. Shading can also add more depth to your succulents, like how we added shading in Procreate to make the fun rainbow-colored succulent with depth that’s shown below.

Now you know how to draw succulents, and we hope you enjoyed this tutorial as much as we did. Want to do another drawing tutorial like this? Why not have a look at how to draw a rose or how to draw a turtle?